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The Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil #02
Ligyung2003
Korean Art Museum Association
Seoul, South Korea
This piece has layer of multiple meanings. We human rely on over 70% of our knowledge and limits to sights. But what lies outside of the sight is the ultimate significance. Sometimes you will see the exit if you close your eyes. Your transcending will to meet the absolute divine by keeping your eyes closed would reveal spirituality to you. Dark shadow exists when there is a source of light. The light creates shades. The evil nature in human draw an attention to the good as the darkness is to light the artist believes
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- Title: The Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil #02
- Creator: Ligyung, 리경
- Creator Lifespan: 1969
- Creator Nationality: Korean
- Creator Birth Place: Jeonju, Korea
- Date Created: 2003
- Physical Dimensions: w13000 x h3000 x d7000 cm
- Type: Media, Installation
- Medium: High voltage bulb, MDF, glossy paint
- Critic's Note: Ligyung's artistic territory presents her diverse talents and expressive range in installation, plane figure, and sculpture. She aspires to seek her everlasting interests in religious spirituality, ruptured contradiction between human interactions, and she continues to bring fundamental questions when the art and society relates to one another. Generally, artists' works tend to begin with their own identity searching and went on to the worldly conflict with the identity found then finally ends with the religious subject matter. On the other hand, Ligying's work investigates religious spirituality from the very first stage. Her ability to provide not only the individual existence intimately connected to religion, but also the religious contradiction and concerns is astonishing. The artist continues to ask "How incomplete it is what you are seeing is what you believing?" and visualizes such question through her installation works at the various exhibition in England, Germany, Slovenia and Asia. Her sharp outlook on the world always leaves you with the sensational significance and a memorization.
- Artist's Education: Chelsea College of Art and Design, London. M.F.A., Painting.
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